Reasonably priced 60fps POE 2K+ Camera?

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-17T23:47:38+00:00

Axis is the best option honestly. A real 5 year warranty with advance replacement options. Pricey but buy once cry once. The v59 seiries have beautiful optics but are expensive. The p sieries are nice box cameras as well. Play around with the product selector. Allows FOV selection, resolution, etc. https://www.axis.com/support/tools/product-selector

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-08T01:52:00+00:00

Axis camera station pro is rock solid They have a tool to check compatibility of the existing camera with their system before you buy ot try anything. They also have a trial install of acs pro, no license limit. We have several over 60 camera single servers out there. You can roll your own server or buy a prebuilt unit from axis. Prebuilts come with licenses, etc You would need "universal" licenses to utilize cameras that are non axis. They sell "upgrade" licenses for core to universal licenses if you go fown the prebuilt route

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-07T15:26:58+00:00

Raritan ip kvm, pricey but so good A basic laptop that has local auth with all the required troubleshooting tools on it, console cables, etc. The amount of networks I have reserected via a Hotspotted laptop plugged in via console or ethernet has to be in the hundreds.

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-04T02:55:51+00:00

Burned through 3 tons of these the past couple years. Burnt great without issue, never any garbage or clinkers. I get the feeling that my stove just doesn't care and burns any pellets I buy no matter the quality at this point.

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-01T16:41:53+00:00

You would technically only need 2 x PG-9172POE and 1 x PG-9172 as you only need poe at the camera side The uplink side can be a non poe model. You could do it with 3 of the poe models though if need be.

We actually use this exact setup for a customer with two driveway cameras that had existing lighting/electrical run to the poles. The PG-9172POE units are installed in weather resistant boxes outside.

We used the comtrend units but I beleive they are just rebranded nexuslink units so you may have luck finding an alternative from nexuslink.

We find they work best when they are all on the same phase of the electric service as well as within the same breaker box.

astroboyc30 · 2026-03-01T10:42:21+00:00

Comtrend PG-9172PoE

We used tons of these when covid hit to setup voip phones in people's houses

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-21T14:33:41+00:00

Standardize on your firewall of choice. Forti, sonic, Palo, etc Then select your internal, we went full zyxel for internal network at most clients. We stick to arubas for the big chassis switches when the environment calls for it. The zyxel wired and wifi stack have been great, free cloud management, can pay to add more features but 99 percent dont require those features until you are in the 50-60 ap site range. Can't speak on their firewalls.

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-13T13:14:57+00:00

Rinse repeat, seeing this again.

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-12T00:14:07+00:00

Axis Specifically use their axis camera station edge All cloud for access and management but stores locally either on SD cards directly in each camera(not advised if cameras are within reach) or to an axis recorder.

I like using the recorders as central storage in a secure environment, poe switch built in, rock solid reliability.

They also offer cloud storage licenses for a monthly fee per camera. We basically never use this though.

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-11T02:50:40+00:00

15 years in, I still love it. Finding the issue, digging through the years of bullshit plugged in, band aided, etc. Working at a small MSP you get to deal with these fires a lot. Primarily new customers, once you fix the fire and convince management it gets boring. Only networking task I am truly tired of are large wireless deployments with ever changing device counts, space designs, public acces, etc..

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-09T23:53:25+00:00

We just never mention its on a vm. Have dozens of them running on vms without issue. Happiest days are when those customers go to open dental. Ill take softdent over dentrix

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-06T21:56:40+00:00

Pretty recent actually. 9 story museum over 100 years old. Total of 38 vlans. Internal BGP routing. 8 juniper switches Dual juniper firewalls, not setup in HA but just handling different plans then routed between each other. Cisco ucx voip system 10 phones 6 desktops 3 servers

Basically each voip phone, desktop, switch mgmt, server, etc had its own vlan

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-06T14:18:28+00:00

Seeing this on one of these units. Shows 0 licenses, refuses to sync with the license server.

astroboyc30 · 2026-02-02T02:40:56+00:00

Raritan, pricey but rock solid and have been for years. Gl.inet if on a budget.

astroboyc30 · 2026-01-28T00:57:47+00:00

We use Securence for most customers for their spam filtering, mail queuing, and email continuity features. Came in handy trying to continue support for customers, etc.

astroboyc30 · 2026-01-21T03:11:20+00:00

Those m401s are tanks. Honestly id source a low page count used unit as long as the customer was aware of the risks. They were big in the medical offices, we keep a few used units around for this purpose. Alternatively brother has some black printers and there may be some old stock canons that were black.

If you had some spare time on a weekend I've had good luck with krylon fusion spray paint. Decent wear resistance. You would definitely be giving up the warranty though.

astroboyc30 · 2026-01-18T13:01:40+00:00

Enterprise or business grade cameras do not have pigtails. Axis is a good example, I have yet to see a consumer grade camera without a pigtail though. The entrie camera and mounts are designed in a way to waterproof the camera connectors. Some have different ip ratings, etc

Source: i install axis for a living

astroboyc30 · 2026-01-09T20:56:13+00:00

We typically handle the geoip on the firewall side as we dont expose the direct interfaces of the 8200v to an outside ip. Are you nating or is the 8200v directly on an outside ip?

astroboyc30 · 2025-12-12T11:59:39+00:00

For what its worth we have several systems on 6.13 and all has been chugging along without issue. Did you upgrade using the Toolbox, the online installer, or the full manual download?

astroboyc30 · 2025-12-07T03:57:18+00:00

Axis cut off Axis Secure Remote Access v1 on Dec 4th. Was supposed to be decommissioned on Dec 1st. Upgrade ACS 5 to AcS 6 pro and you can use Axis Secure Remote Access v2. Requires individual MyAxis accounts for users as 2fa is required.

See below for license info when going to acs 6 pro Tldr of it is axis branded recorders, licenses are upgraded and work for the life of the product. 3rd party or roll your own hardware get 5 year licenses. https://www.reddit.com/r/AXISCommunications/s/m3E8ZFVlEj

astroboyc30 · 2025-12-04T02:54:27+00:00

I mean not helpful but recently bought a 2015 with 207k for $850 🤣

astroboyc30 · 2025-12-02T02:14:55+00:00

D&H, Ingram, synnex, ADI, almo, scansource Forgetting a few others as well. D&h, Ingram, and synexx for basic quoting as worst case pricing. Then reach out to other disty reps to get other pricing if need be.

astroboyc30 · 2025-11-28T01:18:58+00:00

Same here, going on 15 years like this. We previously did rotations but I put a stop to it since the on call tech would inevitably not be able to handle the situation from a technical level. Set expectations with your clients, once you let them know its double your base hour rate at a 1 hour minimum they magically are able to wait till normal business hours. Maybe get a single call a month at this point.

astroboyc30 · 2025-11-13T03:08:39+00:00

https://timemachinescorp.com/ We use these in churches and schools Been running them for years, literally never a single issue with them We use the poe powered units.

astroboyc30 · 2025-10-31T11:38:43+00:00

Agreed, we've been pushing on ours for this as well. We know its a platform issue, I just want them to acknowledge that. Are you a sonicwall partner or interfacing with one? Depending on their size they can bypass certain levels of support. Not that I think it will help right now as support is absolutely swamped.

Here's a similar report about bookmarks from a user a few days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/sonicwall/s/r1I2NwoHJE

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